Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-11-04

contributions on all subiec.s IN this depart
ment that would be of general interest to
farmers are solicited. Farmers are also reques-
ted to use these columns ior exchange OF ex-
pcrience and questions.l
Farmers Buying at Wholesale.
The New York Tribune gives the fol-
lowing hints in regard TO the gain or loss
from buying certain commodities in large
quantities:
There is no economy in buying sugar
by theDarrel, as the retail price is about
the same rs the wholesale. Twenty five
pounds Of grannia,ed sugar far general
use ia enough to keepin store, with five or
ten pounds each of powdered and of loaf
sugar for table nse. Coffee Is improved
by keeping II IN cool, dry place, If ii is
rot Drowned. bur loses flavor If stored
after browning. 1t is pity that the Ger
MAJ method OF browning and grinding
the coffee eech morning tor breakfast is
not in vogue in this country. Tea is
great deal cheaper by the box and should
be purchased in this way whenever it is
possible. The canister, which ordinarily
holds half a pound, can be filed from the
storeroom, and the head of the house car
readily see how fast the tea is used. Lard
drippings and butter should be stored in
stone jars in the coldest and driest place
Vinegar improves with keeping and it is
economy to buy large supply. Dried
beans, peas and dried vegetables and fruit
should be stored away in the fall, when
cheapest, for winter use. The years sup
ply of raisinS, currants, c!tron and other
dried fruits from foreign lands comes TO
market in October, and this is good time
to secure good supply for winter. 1t is
also the time when all the old stuff left
over from the year previous is vended ex-
tensively. and great care should be taken,
as this old stock is often imposed upon the
purchaser as new" The way the Ger
mans make their coffee is An excellent one
and hen properly steepeu will make the
best coffee in the world but many house
wives have too much to do in getting their
early breakfasts to burn and grind coffee.
We buy coffee already Drowned, keep it in
an alright receptacle and grind it every
morning. After tits ground it loses its fla
vor by standing. Sometimes we mean 10
give our way of making coffee.
Word to verm ont Farmers.
Prom the -. Johnsbury Caledonian,l
Vermont farmers will do well to read
with many grains of allowance the letters
from the West that occasionally find their
way into the papers OF this state giving
! expression to unqualified admiration for
| that country and phenomenal success in
| it. When these letters appear over sigma
lures that are known to the reader he can
easily discriminate between the truth and
1
| and sound common sense. When the sig
nature is that of a stronger, however, it is
| best to give large majority of the letters
| from the West, that speak in such eXtrava-
CANT terms of the opportunities offered the
| farmer in that land, a very wide berth:
| Careful investigation will generally reveal
the fact that the lettors are published
| through the solicitations of Western land
or railroad agents and that sometimes
they are inserted "for consideration
! That Pasture Needs Revivinx.
Exchanged
Brother farmer, haven't you paid taxes
on that old pasture long enough without
receiving tenth part of what you might
| from 1t Begin to improve it by getting
a short light bush scythe. 1t will do
twice the business of heavy one. With
out good ool, and good edge, you can
not do good work, and you become dis
couraged, and give up the task, for task
it is to reroyate old, grown-up brush pas
ture. Sweet fern and hard-hack | would
pull up, and all the rest cut very close.
Ever keep this thought III mind eXter-
miuatiou. Last year | ploWed knoll OF
about three acres that had moved the
brush on for twenty years, sowed about
seventy bushels OF Cauada ashes, and seed
ed with herd S-grass, clover, red-top and
orchard grass mixed together 1t looked
green early IN the spring, and foun d my
caltle on this knoll almost every time 1
salted them am just blowing another
two-acre piece that is all brush and stones
and has not given me dollars worth o.
feed for the last twenty years. But if
mistake not will yet be Il benefactor to
my race, tor someone has said that such
IL he who makes two blades of grass grow
where but one grew before There Is an
other growth, perhaps, one We do not
think OF. While we cultivate the grasses
in an old pasture, we also improve our pa
thence, and some other good qualities. II
these thoughts meet the eye of Sny young
men of energy who want to see what can
be done, l shall be glad to show them
where have spent much thought as well
as labor.